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More DMCA Censorship at Yahoo!

Posted by Zonk on from the do-they-call-it-censorship!-there dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Once again a Yahoo! user has found themselves on the short end of the DMCA stick. Video blogger Loren Feldman recently found that his video mocking (read parody) the Village People and blogger Shel Israel was removed from the Yahoo! service after Scorpio Music served Yahoo! with a DMCA takedown notice. The video in question contained a very brief fair use parody snippet of the Village People song YMCA as performed by a puppet. What's more, Yahoo! threatened Feldman with the termination of all of his Yahoo! services including the revocation of his Yahoo ID."

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  1. Re:D-M-C-A by cp.tar · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should have used HTML formatting.

    Put a <br/> at the end of each line, and instead of empty lines, use the occasional <p>...</p> tag pair. Empty lines are the worst, I'd say; they bring your average way down.

    I learned it the hard way, too, but I've been posting my comments in HTML ever since.

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  2. Re:And they wonder... by downundarob · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yours is probably a rhetorical question, and you would know how to find out but..
    Del Shannon originally penned (and had a hit with it) in 1961

    Lawrence Welk 1962.
    the Small Faces in 1967
    Elvis Presley in 1970,
    the Beach Boys were known to have played it live.
    Charlie Kulis 1975
    Bonnie Raitt 1977

    Just to name a few